The magazine announced in August that the manga would be on hiatus while Higuchi took maternity leave for her second baby.
The manga has been running in Monthly Afternoon since September of 2003, and the 27th volume shipped on last July 22.
This year’s August issue of Kodansha’s Afternoon magazine announced on Saturday that Asa Higuchi’s Ookiku Furikabutte (Big Windup!) manga will resume from hiatus as planned in the next issue on July 25.
Funimation released the first part of the anime in North America in 2009 and Nozomi Entertainment released the second season last year.